#i was thinking that maybe emperor did rip out of hol except in lightspeed hence why we get the light emitting out when emperor was summoned | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

fellow-traveller · 8 months

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Ever wonder why Hol Horse is one of the only JoJo characters with the specific SFX 「メギャン」 (me-gyan)?

Me too, me too.

(I'm not an expert in Japanese expressional words, let alone its manga SFX, so take this with a spoonful of salt)

I assume "me-gyan" is a mix of "meki" and "kyan". "Meki" is the sound of something "ripping out", like a tree growing out of the ground at rapid speed. "Kyan" can be two things - a squeal or a wolf's cry.

At this point...it's safe to say that a high pitch, cracking howl is what Emperor literally sounds like when it "rips itself out" of Hol's hand. The manga and anime didn't show this, obviously. Just Emperor phasing in and out from Hol's hand with a synth sound...

But the OVA literally did show the ripping out part (which is kinda scary, tbh...to have a gun rip out of one's arm like some Kazuo Umezu story).

Which makes OVA Hol Horse even cooler, btw.

For a minor character to have a very memorable SFX assigned to him, shows how much Araki actually cared for Hol Horse. He just never had the capacity to expand him during SDC's run. But, from Hol, we were given Gyro (a better Hol Horse, according to the man himself) so that's good.

#hol horse #jojo's bizarre adventure #jjba #musings #meta i guess #i was thinking that maybe emperor did rip out of hol except in lightspeed hence why we get the light emitting out when emperor was summoned #to show that it appeared fast in hol's hand #but when hol faced dio he did it as silently as he could so the ripping out effect was shown...at least in the ova

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